The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

I had a good time doing ["The Congressman"], and I hope that Treat [Williams] and I plan to go flying in his [private] jet!

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.